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4. By prefixing tlie diplitliong ai to words beginning with a vowel; as, 

 alili, to be trvie, aialili, to be really true; sometimes i is prefixed, as iiksho, 

 to be none indeed. 



5. By prefixing a to words beginning with a consonant; as bilia, to be 

 forever, abilia, to be forevermore. 



6. By doubling a consonant in the accented syllable; as, alota, to be 

 full; allota, to be brimful; kvnia, to be gone, kvnnia, to be gone off. 



7. By inserting a consonant in the final syllable; as, chukva, to go in, 

 chukowa, to go in boldly; ihoa, to call him, i howa. 



8. By prefixing ai and inserting another vowel; as, ulhpisa to be right, 

 aiulhpiesa, to be just right. 



9. By uniting two verbs; as, ishkottahli, to drink all up; vbitkanchi, to 

 massacre. 



4. The frequentative or iterative form; tahg,kchi, to keep tying. 



5. The instantaneous or quick form, by the insertion of h in the ac- 

 cented syllable; as, tahkchi, to tie quickly; vbi, to kill; alibi, to kill 

 quickly; also the form ahahbi; kvnia, to go away, hvninihya, to vanish. 



6. The form for a sudden and single act ; as shalvlli, to slide, shalakU, to 

 slip; halvlli, to hold, halakli, to catch hold of. 



7. The diminitive form in neuter and attributive verbs; as, chito, to be 

 large, cliihto, to be largish; hopaki, to be far off, hopahki, to be rather 

 far off; lakua, to be yellow, lahakna, to be yellowish. 



8. The repetitive form, to continue an action in one place and one man- 

 ner; as, binih, to sit, binininli, to rise up and sit down again; tonoli, to 

 roll, tonononli, to roll back and forth. 



9. The causal forms, 1, by sufiixing chi; as, takchichi, to make him tie; 

 ikbichi, to make him do or make, Mat. V. 32; 2, by suffixing chechi; as, 

 ishko, to drink, ishkochechi, to make to drink, to drench; 3, by suffixing 

 chi and prefixing a, locative; as, atakchichi, to tie it to something; 4, by 

 suffixing h; as, achukmali, to make good; Ivshpali, to make hot, to heat. 

 Of these suffixes, chi denotes the causing of the action signified by the 

 primitive verb; as, kvUochi, to harden, from kvUo, to be hard; kolichi, to 

 cause to break, from koli, to break; chechi suffixed to a verb denotes the 

 causing by its own subject of the performance of the action signified by 

 the verb by another subject on an object expressed or understood; as, vno 

 vt vlla ya ikhish a ishkochechi li tuk, I the child him the medicine it did 

 cause him to drink; nafoka yg, fohkvchechi lih, I made him put his clothes 

 on himself ; chi with a, locative, signifies that two different things are 

 acted upon together, as Mat. XIII. 25, onush ash haiyukpulo yo ant a 

 hokchichi cha, kvnia tok, he came and sowed tares among the wheat, not 

 wheat with wheat but tares with wheat; akakushi yo shuka nipi g, aiau- 

 vshlichih, she fries (causes to fry) eggs with pork. 



The suffix kachi, kechi, kvchi, is added to many verbs sUghtly altering 

 their sense; as, winali, to shake, winakvchi, to be shaken; basasua, to have 

 stripes, bassasu kvchi, to be striped like a rattlesnake; malvtha, to lighten. 



